on the internet

Introduction:
On this page you will find references to internet websites (=iRx): links to interesting websites with pictures and info on Impressionism and the impressionist artists. (Note: not yet all the links are active.) I will also give short info on the contend of the website. I use some catagories (you can search on them):

Database
Database pictures
Musea website (related to musea or with info on musea
Auction sites
Reproductions (websites the offer reproductions)
Locations (websites with information on the locations where the Impressionists painted)

www.Salons.musee-Orsay.fr
Database: Salons et expositions de groupes 1673-1914 », salons.musee-orsay.fr, un projet du musée d’Orsay et de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art soutenu par le Ministère de la Culture et de la communication, consulté 27/09/2017 – maintenant.
An excellent database with the catalogues of the Salon (Paris 1673-1879), the Salon des Refusés (1863+73+75+86), the ‘expositions impressionniste’ (1874-86), the Salon (de la Société) des Artistes Français (1880-1905), the Salon des XX (1884+85 in Brussels), the Salon des Société National des Beaux-Arts (1890-1910; -/-1900+01+04+05), Salon de la Rose-Croix (1892-97), the Salon d’Automne (only that of 1904) and many other Paris, regional and international exhibitions. Note: several catalogues are (not yet) in this database.
Possibility to search per artist. Not secured.
www.the-athenaeum.org
Database pictures: The best database with >250.000 pictures. Possibilities to search on artist, art movement, museum, etc. Possibilities to search in alphabetical, chronological order, etc. No advertisements. Please support them! (Not secured.) It seems that the website is off-line since early 2020.
en.wikipedia.org
Database: many articles, artists, links and sources; In English; I will use this one most of the time
fr.wikipedia.org
Database: The french pages sometimes offer more information.
nl.wikipedia.org
Database: in Dutch
www.commons.wikimedia.org
Database pictures: Info and images on many artists; download free large images. Searching for pictures is not always synoptic. Also links to documents as old books and catalogues.
www.wikiart.org
Database pictures: Also info and pictures of other art-movements. Doesn’t render many suggestions on less known impressionists; many pictures of the well known impressionists, but the searching is complicated; small advertisements
www.artsandculture.google.com
Database pictures: The Google Art Project with high quality pictures and zoom options;
maps.google.com
Locations: possibility to find locations where the Impressionist lived and worked;
images.google.com
Database images: Very many images with links to sources; possibility of focused searching (for example: Degas drawing horses); not very reliable; limited information.
www.mutualart.com
auction site; source for many pictures; sometimes zoom option and large download; a month free trial
www.blouinartsalesindex.com
auction site; many suggestions
www.artnet.com
auction site; source for many pictures; info on works showed at auctions; many works of the well known Impressionists (also pastels and drawings); but also several works of the lesser known Impressionist; for full access you have to pay
www.sothebys.com
auction site; high quality pictures; with zoom options
www.christies.com
auction site; high quality pictures; zoom option; also unknown impressionists
www.artprice.com
auction site; searching on artist -> most artists -> info on many works showed at auctions (no pictures) unless you sign in and pay; pictures with watermark
www.invaluable.co.uk
auction site; broad offer; not many results; gives signature of the artist
www.arcadja.com
auction site; many results on lesser known impressionists; very small pictures;
www.archive.org
Very large database: many links to old books and catalogues
www.wheretheartiststood.co.uk
Locations: Indicating walks in Auvers, Pontoise, Marly, Bougival and Chatou where the impressionist painters have worked.
www.henkverveer.nl
Extended info on Impressionists like Caillebotte (+expo), Cézanne, Degas, Monet (+expo), Renoir and Seurat (expo) and on related painters like Bazille, Corot, Fatin-Latour and Manet. All in Dutch.
www.impressionistgallery.co.uk
Database: =WGI; A non-commercial site with a lot of info and pictures on impressionism and post-impressionism. Not much info on the less known impressionists.
www2.culture.gouv.fr
Database: (better known as: Joconde); database of pictures in French musea; not many of the lesser known impressionists
RKD=Netherlands Institute for Art History
Database: Most important Dutch database on art; info also of unknown impressionists; text also in English; references to the most important dictionaries; info on articles, books and exhibitions concerning an artist; links to ‘marques de collections’ = iR65
www.impressionist-art.com
only info on the most known impressionists with several large pictures
data.bnf.fr
Large database of the Bibliothèque National de France in Paris; references to books, articles and catalogues; no pictures
www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth
Museum website: (also: WebMuseum, Paris; list with names of artists; linking to short info and some pictures)
www.museumsyndicate.com
Museum website: (only several pictures of the well known Impressionists; overview with thumbnails; option to download big picture)
ColourLex.com
(info on pigments used in paintings; also of impressionist paintings see)
www.artic.edu/collection
Museum website: (great website with detailed information on art-works; part of the Art Institute Chicago) =iR74
etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk/catalogue/people
(list of artists; linking to works, but often not to a work of the artist, only the named artist is related to the work; most of the works are of Whistler). Official reference: Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk.
musees.angers.fr/collection/collection-en-ligne/index
Museum website: database of some musea; often there is no picture rendered; no results on many lesser known impressionists
www.1000museums.com
Museum website: info of many musea
www.laviemoderne.it
info on impressionism, the artists, the locations and the eight expositions; only in Italian
www.eclecticlight.co
interesting articles on vanished impressionists; but very broad offer; search option restricted
www.impressionism.org
very colourful; only limited information and small images; many irritating advertisements
www.wikigallery.org
alphabetical overview on the first name of the artist; no search option; not much on the less known impressionists; no info about the work; image with mark;
www.artcyclopedia.com
Museum website: only links to musea; many links don’t work or are just general; no info; no pictures; nothing on the lesser known impressionists
www.kunstkopie.nl
Reproductions: a commercial site for ordering copies; also works of some lesser known Impressionists
gallica.bnf.fr
Enormous database: archive of old documents and pictures.
www.askart.com
auction site; less works than other auction sites; for full access you have to pay; the images are limited in size
www.ebay.com
auction site; broad offer; not many results
www.liveauctioneers.com
auction site; broad offer; not many results
www.lot-art.com
auction-site; not many results
www.auction.fr
(auction site; =iR239)
www.art-value.com
(auction site; alphabetical overview of many (unknown) artists + search option; restricted pictures; limited info; not secured)
www.artfinding.com
(a vague project; no links to further information; sort of digital art market; in French; not secured)
www.alamy.com
Database pictures: many beautiful pictures, but always restricted
www.gustavcaillebotte.org
Database pictures: irritating advertisements and pop-ups; 277 pictures, alphabetical order with restricting texts
www.marycassatt.org
Database pictures: 446pictures; no information, no date; irritating suggestions for buying reproductions
www.art-monet.com
Database pictures: many pictures per decade; with some advertisements
www.art-renoir.com
Database pictures: many pictures per decade
www.art-degas.com
Database pictures: many pictures per decade; also sculptures.
www.art-gauguin.com
Database pictures: many pictures per decade; also sculptures; with some advertisements
www.art-cezanne.com
Database pictures: many pictures per decade; also watercolours.
www.impressionist-art.com
Database pictures: home page with links to major (post-)impressionists; with advertisements.
www.impressionist-art.com/pissarro
Database pictures: pictures of Pissarro; with advertisements
www.impressionist-art.com/seurat
Database pictures: pictures of Seurat; with advertisements
www.magrasku.de
Database pictures: made by Anna V. Greko; with info in German about the 8 ‘impressionist’ expositions and info about the time before and after and many pictures. Not secured.
www.getty.edu
Database: by the J. Paul Getty trust. Better known as ‘ULAN‘ = Union List of Artist Names. Option to search for unknown artists with references to sources. Not secured.
NYPL digital collections
Database pictures: Collection of the New York Public Library; many etchings and old pictures;
Wikipedia.es
Database pictures: A Spanish Wikipedia site about the 8 ‘impressionist’ expositions
www.musee-orsay.fr
Musea website: on the impressionist expositions)
www.pinterest.com
Database pictures: many photo’s from private persons, also of paintings; often badly documented; you have to log in =iR90
www.marquesdecollections.fr
Database: French database on artists and about early auctions; also accessible via RKD = iR24). Collections of drawings and stamps by Frits Lugt in 1921 + 1956.
WikiData.org
Database for info on artists etc.)
www.familysearch.org
Database: (after free registration you can look for information when someone was born etc.)
www.theartstack.com
Reproductions: also pictures of unknown impressionists; also commercial shop
www.oxfordartonline.com // Benezit Dictionary of Artists 2006
Database: Benezit dictionary; for full access you have to log in and pay; not secured
www.oxfordartonline.com // Grove Art Online 2003
Databases: Online database with many articles on art; for full acces you have to log in and pay; not secured
www.eur.nl
Database: Rotterdamsch leeskabinet and search option international archives
Getty Research Institute
Database / museum website: apart from ‘ULAN’ (see iR60) summaries of articles, books and lettres.
ResearchFrick.org
Database / museum website: about American art collectors; not secured
www.artic.edu =iR30
www.degruyter.com
Database: (Allgemeines Künstler Lexicon = R81)
www.impressionism-art.org
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www.van-gogh.fr
(also info on: Béliard, Cézanne, Cordey, Guillaumin, Monet, Morisot, Piette, Pissarro, Renoir, Seurat, Sisley, Vignon and related artists like: Corot, Daubigny, Goeneutte, Manet; not secured; with advertisements)
www.worldart.site
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www.geneanet.org
(geneological info)
lebrechetassociés
Auctionsite: Paris Auction house
grisebach.com
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catawiki.com
Auctionsite: online auction house
us.expertissim.com
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lofty.com
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drouotonline.com
Auctionsite: auction house in Paris
catalogue.gazette-drouot.com
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encheres.com
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osenat.com
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bidtoart.com
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pinterest
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provokr.com
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www.artviewer.com
(several pictures with info on several artists; not secured)
findartinfo.com
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Flickr.com
Database pictures: many pictures of private persons;
a-r-t.com
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age-fotostock
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opus-mirabilis.fr
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tnportraits.org
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fr.wahooart.com
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lotsearch.net
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imgur.com
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art-richelieu.fr
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artwork-prive.com
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www.wga.hu
Museum website: web gallery of art
www.britishmuseum.org
Museum website: database of british musea;
archives-paris.fr
Database: old civil archives of Paris; not secured
books.google.nl
(preview of Theodore Reff: World’s Fair of 1900; retrospective exhibition of French Art 1800-1899)
fr.muzeo.com
Reproductions: of paintings with details; secured)
www.renefer.org
Museum website: PDF of the exhibition ‘Impressionnisme dans la vallée d’Oise‘ in MCP Pontoise in 2007
www.musee.louviers.free.fr
Museum website: info on the exhibition ‘Paysages d’eau’ in Musée de Louviers in 2013
france.jeditoo.com
Locations: paintings made in Dieppe and other places in France
sidmouthu3aart.blogspot.com
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art-courage.com
fineartamerica.com
Database pictures: many pictures;
auctionartparis.com
Auctionsite:
proantic.com
galerie-leserbon.fr
ernesto-Ballesteros.com
theCourtauldGallery
Museum website: Courtauld gallery in London;
europeana.eu
EUtouring.com
wahooArt.com
revolvy.com
nella-buscot.com
wikiphidias.fr
alienor.org
art.rmngp.fr
Large database with many pictures from French musea =images d’art; the search option gives to many options; the loading time is quite long.
akg.images.fr
Database pictures: pictures with watermark
paristoric.com
wikiwand.com
books.google.com = iR107
amazon.com
archive.org =R19
tumblr.com
Database pictures: many pictures;
pubhist.com
Database pictures: many pictures
artsy.net
Database pictures: many pictures
naturebuy.fr
Rakuten.com
Getty images
Database pictures / Museum website: with watermark; compare iR60
auctionet.com
Auctionsite:
peintures-tableaux.com
allpainter.com
oldprintmasters.com
scholarsresource.com
where the artists stood.co.uk =iR20
locations:
jolio.over-blog.com (?)
monumentum.fr
cirkwi.com.fr
locations:
seine-saintgermain.fr
locations:
marie-louveciennes.fr
locations:
aventures-culturelles.fr
locations:
wikiwand.com =iR130
cghlouveciennes.fr
locations:
1st-art-gallery.com
Reproductions:
meisterdrucke.de
Reproductions:
alfredsisley.org
Database pictures: of Sisley
artprintsondemand
Reproductions:
kerdonis
alfred-sisley.com
Database pictures: of Sisley
reproArte.com
Reproductions:
Arttrip.it
Arteworld.it
printededitions
Reproductions:
printappraisers.com
Reproductions:
kulturarv.dk
Database: art-index Danmark.
useum.org
deartibus.it
nga.gov (National Gallery of Art Washington)
Museum website: =nga.hu
bridgemanart.com
www.deepl.com
great translation site
www.vertalen.nu
Dutch translation site
poulwebb.blogspot.com
artuk.org
Museum website:
pixels.com
arthistoryproject.com
imagekind.com
prints.com
Reproductions:
www.worldcat.org
search machine rendering librairies where indicated books can be found
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wpi.art
great website of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, rendering several Catalogues Raisonné and other publications, see.
view.publitas.com/Morisot
part of wpi (=iR180) showing the Catalogue Raisonné of Berthe Morisot by Bataille & Wildenstein of 1861 (=R100), see also aR2 at the bottom of the main page on Morisot.
wpi.art/monet
page with links to the 4 volumes of the Catalogue Raisonné of Claude Monet by Daniel Wildenstein of 1996 (=R22), see also aR5+6 at the bottom of the main page on Monet.
view.publitas.com/Caillebotte1994
part of wpi (=iR180) showing the Catalogue Raisonné of Gustave Caillebotte by Marie Berhaut of 1994 (=R102), see also aR4 the bottom of the main page on Caillebotte.
view.publitas.com/Caillebotte1978
part of wpi (=iR180) showing the Catalogue Raisonné of Gustave Caillebotte by Marie Berhaut of 1978 (=R101), see also aR5 the bottom of the main page on Caillebotte.
wpi.art.com/Gauguin
page with links to the 2 volumes of the Catalogue Raisonné of Paul Gauguin by Sylvie Crussard of 2002 (=R181), see also aR1-12 at the bottom of the main page on Gauguin.
view.publitas.com/Gauguin1964
online publication of the Catalogue Raisonné of Gauguin by Georges Wildenstein and Raymond Cogniat of 1964;=R128
wpi.art.com/Monet1974-1991
online publication of the older Catalogue Raisonné of Claude Monet by Daniel Wildenstein published from 1974-1991 (=R127), see also aR7-11 at the bottom of the main page on Monet.
wpi.art.com/PissarroCCP
page with links to the 3 volumes of the Critical Catalogue of Paintings of Camille Pissarro by Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel snollaerts of 2005 (=R116)
wpi.art.com/Redon
page with links to the 4 volumes of the Catalogue Raisonné in French of Odilon Redon by Alec Wildenstein of 1992-98 (=R182), see also aR2-6 at the bottom of the main page on Redon.
view.publitas.com/Seurat
online publication of ‘L’Oeuvre Paint; diographie et catalogue critique’ of Seurat by Henri Dorra and John Rewald of 1959;=R183, see also aR1+2 at the bottom of the main page on Seurat.
wpi.art.com/Courbet
page with links to the 2 volumes of the Catalogue Raisonné ‘La Vie et l’oeuvre de Gustave Courbet’ by Robert Fernier of 1977/8 (=R110)
view.publitas.com/Béraud
part of wpi (=iR180) showing the Catalogue Raisonné of Jean Béraud by Patrick Offenstadt of 1999 (=R180)
wpi.art.com/Manet
page with links to the 2 volumes of the Catalogue Raisonné of Manet by Rouart & Wildenstein of 1975 (=R120)
www.cezannecatalogue.com
Feilchenfeldt, Walther, Jayne Warman and David Nash: online catalogue raisonné of the Paintings (Landscapes begin with FWN 1; Portraits FWN 390; Figure composition FWN 560; Still Life FWN 700; and Bathers FWN 900.) , Watercolors and Drawings (Landscape begin with FWN 1000; Portrait FWN 1700; Figure composition FWN 1800; Still life FWN 1900; Bather FWN 2000; Figure study FWN 2070; Page of studies FWN 2200.) and sketchbooks (FWN3000+) of Paul Cézanne. For reading it you have to sign in.
parismuseescollections.paris.fr
art.famsf.org
info on collection Fine Art Museum San Francisco.
digitalprojects.wpi.art/auctions
overview catalogues of sales in Paris 1850-1930
www.durand-ruel.fr
Website of the Durand-Ruel gallery; no direct acces to catalogues, pictures, etc.
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akg-images.co.uk
compare iR128; pictures with watermark
artcurial.com
artchive.ru
wikitree.com
Tutt’art
Italian website
reproduction gallery
Reproductions:
en.muzeo.com
compare iR108
peintures-descours.fr
lampngift.com
art.com
Also iR231
meisterdrucke.uk
compare iR155
alchetron.com
artforum.com
learninglab.si.edu
Museum website: smithsonian AAM
tourism_bougival.com
Locations:
impressionismroutes.com
Locations
colourlex.com =iR29
artsviewer.com =iR92
www.parisrues.com
Locations: info on former names of actual streets in Paris
france-voyage.com
Locations
art.rmng.fr = iR127
pubhistory = iR135
jstor.org
wahooart.com
compare iR99
pictorem.com
artimedes.com
issuu.com
magnolia
tripadvisor
Locations:
bimago.nl
painting-planet
art.com = iR209
statuedefrance.fr
info on statues in France
kunstfüralle
houzz
PaintingMania.com
vangoghmuseum.nl/en/prints
1994 french prints of impressionists and others
alexanderadamsart.wordpress.com
saleroom
auction.fr =iR45
age fotostock =iR96;
Ader
pictures with watermark
www.INHA.fr
Large database of the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris, also participating in the Salon database (=iR1). Including articles on art-critics.
bibliothéque.inha.fr//collections_de_catalogues : overview of librairies having catalogs of sales in Paris.
go.gale.com
Gale Academie Onefile
arts-graphiques.louvre.fr
Drawings, etchings etc. in the Louvre
artsalonholland.nl
Reproductions:
art-prints-on-demand.com
Reproductions:
theloftfineart.com
rickrubens.com
stairsainty.com
zibelius.com
Gallery in Germany.
fredericsamuelcordey.com
Database:
worthpoint.com
picclick.com
www.marchebiron.com
auction.fr
Auctionsite:
www.hs-augsburg.de
www.numiscorner.com
fineart.ha.com
www.auctionhaus-stahl.de
Auctionsite:
fracademic.com
exhibitions.univie.ac.at
great database of exhibitions held from 1905-1915; search per artist / exhibition / etc.; the project has ended 2021/01; not secured.
www.artistes-independants.fr
Giving some information of the former Salon des Independants (not detailed), but also a sort of restart.
ccfr.bnf.fr
large database; catalogue collective de france; uses javascript
https://agorha.inha.fr/inhaprod/ark:/54721/00156
Database on ‘Les sociétés des amis des arts‘ (or: amis / cercle / union / association) from 1789-1914 in France, organising all kinds of group exhibitions. Mainly providing an overview. I could not find links to catalogues.
www.dnb.de
Database of the Deutsche National Bibliothek.
www.metmuseum.org/libraries-and-research-centers
Overview page leading to several collections of the Metropolitan.
www.metmuseum.org/libraries-and-research-centers/watson-digital-collections/auctions-catalogs
Database of the Metropolitan. The documents are on archive.org (= iR19), see iR268.
archive.org/details/metmuseumlibraries//date
Database of documents from the Metropolitan with 6371 results, sorted by date.
archive.org/details/metmuseumlibraries//Hôtel_Drouot//date
Overview per date, starting 1859, of auctions at Hôtel Drouot in Paris leading to the catalogs; 627 results. See also R240+R241.
archive.org/details/metmuseumlibraries//galerie_Georges_Petit//date
Overview per date, starting 1884, of exhibitions at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris leading to the catalogs; 203 results. See also R232.
libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm//Watson
Watson Library Digital Collections, with overview with catalogs of exhibitions at the Metropolitan, with previews of those catalogs; 737 results, date descending.
madparis.fr
Bibliothéque de Musée des Arts-Décoratifs. Database; several pages are not accessible .
bibliothéquekandisky.centrepompidou.fr
This library of the Centre Pompidou in Paris has 2500 titles of catalogues of Salons in Paris, including the salon des Artistes français (1804), salon des Indépendants (1884), salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts (1890), biennale de Venise (1895), salon d’Automne (1903), biennale de Sydney (1973), internationale Foto-Triennale d’Esslingen (1990), international Santa Fe Biennial (1995), en passant par Frieze Art Fair, Londres (2003) et Guangzhou Photo Biennial (2005).
www.tate.org.uk/research/library
Library of the Tate Galery in London.
www.vam.ac.uk/info/national-art-library
Library of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (=M65).
www.bsb-muenchen.de
Bayerische Staatsbibliotheque, Munich.
digitale-bibliothek.belvedere.at
Library of the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna with info on exhibitions in Vienna and links to catalogues.
www.zikg.eu
Zentral Institut Kunst Geschichte in Munich.
www.museenkoeln.de/bibliothek
Art Library of the Musea in Cologne.
www.onb.ac.at
Website of the Österreichische National Bibliothek.
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www.salon-automne.com
Website of the still active Salon d’Automne. Limited historical information; no data of catalogues.
www.histoire-image.org
Site with articles and vidéos on French history and art; in French or German.
silos.ville-chaumont.fr/flora
Website of ‘Les silos, maison du livre et de l’affiche. With many pictures of posters and postcards.
PeoplePill.com
Database for finding persons.
VIAF.org
Database of the Virtual International Autority File
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